Beginning to think that having /r/SocialistRA in the sidebar of /r/liberalgunowners is maybe not so good for /r/SocialistRA.
That said, it looks like the bad posts are downvoted, so that's good.
Showing up at my local British SRA chapter with my bolt-action, single-shot .22
Breech loaders are for pansies. I'll fight the revolution with a muzzle loading musket and a bayonet the way God intended.
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
Weren't the provos the cleanest faction involved? I'm pretty sure out of them, the actual British military, and the unionist paramilitaries, the IRA inflicted the lowest percentage of civilian casualties out of all of them.
so one of the things with the IRA is that, they were a decentralised movement. and as much as they have a central command, there is only so much that is directed by higher ups. but, overall, the IRA were absolutely the least shitty with civilian casualties in Ireland. now, they did engage in terrorism in England, but imo like a war is a war :shrug-outta-hecks: expecting people to play nice when fighting for their freedom against fascists is lib shit
The IRA killed more overall people, but the UVF killed more civilians
I would need to check, but I think the Official IRA would be, seeing as they went on ceasefire in 1972 and mostly fought with Provos and the INLA after that. The estimate seems to be 57 killed by the OIRA, 22 civilians among that (22%). Provos are around 508 (29%). Another source puts that at 644 (36%) though 61 of those are former security forces so IMHO valid targets
/r/socialistra is absolutely filled with radlibs. I had to explain to someone in there why the western imperial powers didn't back the revolutionary government during the Spanish civil war the other day, and they still didn't get it.
why didnt they? i genuinely know nothing about the spanish civil war
The revolutionary government was a coalition of everything from Marxist-Leninists to anarcho-syndicalists to socdems. It was exceedingly left wing though, and the western powers were all too eager to back Franco and his fascist nationalists to get rid of them (or at least weaken them enough for the monarchists to win instead).
My exasperation with the /r/SRA poster is from how obvious it should be that western capital is not going to side with communists to defeat western-aligned fascists.
isn't that why Stalin didn't demand they go full Bolshevik? He was aware of the circumstance and knew that they could not give any further excuses for the western powers to step in directly on Franco's behalf
No I think that's one of the pro-Castro subs, got a soft spot for the guy's son and all
Looks like all the anti-nra comments were downvoted and removed :fidel-salute: :ira:
I stopped talking in one of the discord’s because I had to defend Stalin over and over. Compared him to Hitler and all that stuff.
